Shipping-package.



J. M. HUMMEL. SHIPPING PAUKAGE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. s, 1919.

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SHIPPING-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nev. 7, 1911'.

Application filed September 8, 1910. Serial No. 581,057.

To all whom it 'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. I-IoMMEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shipping- Packages, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains t0 make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invent-ion relates to packages for storing and shipping goods, and has for its object an improved package made preferably from wooden staves bound together by wire which is wound spirally around the staves and closed at the ends by means of a specially shaped strip of metal, one edge of which engages under the head by which the closure is completed, one edge of which engages over the head and a fold turned in the met-al engages in a croze cut in the staves at the end of the package.

In the drawings Figure 1, is a sectional elevation of a package in which the head end has not yet been inserted. Fig. 2, is an enlarged view showing the lining strip in place. Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the package made in the form of a pail. Fig. fl, is a perspective showing in detail the lining strip. Fig. 5, is a plan view of an end of the package. O

The package is made from staves l preferably tongued and grooved as indicated at 2 in Fig. 2, and bound together with a wire 3 which engages in a shallow kerf l cut in the staves. The ends of the wire are secured by staples 5 or in any other approved way, and in the completed package the binding wire 3 is preferably sunken or nearly sunken in the saw kerf which runs spirally around the package. In making this package the staves are preferably made in long lengths from which the special lengths for a pail or other similar receptacle. are cut and in placing the long staves in position in the machine they are preferably placed with the ends breaking joints as indicated at 7 in Fig. 3; in this way the long length, which may be very long, is run on? from the machine as far as may be convenient and then cut into short pieces, and the binding wire which is turned around the staves while the long piece is making is secured in place by staples 5, and the end of the Wire is clipped off close to the staple. After a piece of the proper length for a package has been severed from the long tube the ends of the cut piece are crozed or cut with a saw to produce a groove similar to the groove in a barrel head, and in the saw kerf thus formed is inserted the folded part 8 of a band of metal, which is folded on itself to form the flange 8, and from which folded part one portion or web 9 extends at an angle to the flange 8, and one portion 10 extends so as to form an internal flange. The strip of metal is bent to a ring forming the flange 8 inserted in the croze, the flange 10 then becomes a lining on which the head rests and supported by the flange 9 which is T shaped in cross section. The flange 9 or stem of the T is bent in to make part 11 (Fig. 2) assume a position parallel with the flange 10 with the head l2 between the two flanges 10 and 1l, very securely held in place. However short the section of any individual stave is it will be prevented from endwise movement by the spiral wire sunk in the spiral kerf around the package.

What I claim is l. In combination with a package provided with a deep croze groove, a head, a band adapted to support the same comprising a strip of metal folded to T 'shape in cross section, the folded end of the bar of the T adapted to engage in said croZe, and the other end adapted to support the head and the bottom of the stem adapted to be folded over the head after the same has been placed in position, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a package provided with a deep croze groove, a head, a band, T shaped in cross section, comprising a strip forming the stem of the T, angularly flanged, folded back upon itself and extended to the opposite side of the stem forming the bar of the T, said folded portion being adapted to spreadingly engage in the croze, the opposite side of the bar of the T, adapted to support the head, and the lower portion of the stem, adapted to fold over the head and hold the same in place, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a package provided with a deep Croze groove, a head, a band adapted to support the same comprising a folded flange having an extension upon which the head rests, the said folded flange supporting the head by its engagement in the deep Croze and adapted to form a nonleakable joint by the spreading stress of its folded parte, and a Web extending at en angle from said folded flange along the inside of the package and adapted to be folded over the head, when the saine is in place, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specication n the presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH M. HUMMEL. Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, STUART C. BARNES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

